Wildlife Photography - Birds
Here is a photo of a couple of ducks that I snapped while
at the river waiting for the turtles to appear. The shot
was one of those amazing flukes that sometimes happen, I
spotted the ducks as they took off and aimed the camera
and refocused as quickly as possible. I managed to get only
one shot of them as they flew over my head and, much to
my surprise, it was nicely in focus and beautifully lit.
The lens I used was a very cheap 300mm zoom, not really the right
equipment for bird photography as it is very rare for birds to fly
this close. I have been back to the river a few times now and tried
to get more shots of the birds but I have never managed to get a
shot as good as this one. I even started to look at the cost of
500mm lenses but it seems that a decent one costs at least a couple
of thousand euros, maybe Santa will bring me one.
I must confess that, although the ducks were originally both shot
in the same photo, I have moved them slightly closer together to
improve the composition, something that was easy to do in Photoshop
as the background is quite plain.
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